School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have ...

Since those years I have seen, more through lived experience than through academic study, just how deeply meaningful the ...

Since those years I have seen, more through lived experience than through academic study, just how deeply meaningful the reading of classic books, like Pride and Prejudice, can be. Penguin I no ...

As Boethius states in Book 2 of the Consolation ... took only 24 hours to complete her version. (The Consolation is, in the Penguin Classics 1969 translation, a little over 130 pages in length).

Steve Coogan and Björn Gustafsson are a hilarious duo in "The Penguin Lessons" despite an underwhelming film that shies away from getting real.

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin ...

One film per year in which the unexpected friendship of a penguin deeply affects a human being dealing with emotional pain? No objection here. That’s what we get with the British offering “The ...

Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.

A curmudgeonly teacher finds a renewed zest for life after rescuing a penguin in this new film from 'The Full Monty' helmer ...

I wasn’t wrong. That movie was called “My Penguin Friend” and starred Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. It was released eight ...

trying to get a clear shot of the book. He ultimately identified the cover as an Oxford World's Classics edition. “So I Googled, ‘How many Oxford World’s Classics are there?’ and it was ...